Ongoing (2018 – 19): Supervision and support to reporting on the review of the “Skills for Youth Employment (SKYE)” project in Nigeria (European Commission – EPRD)

Completed (2018): South Africa, development of training material and facilitation of capacity building workshops on leadership, ethics, conflict management, strategic direction, stakeholder management, and M&E, for Community Education and Training (CET) College Management, Governing Councils, and Student Representative Councils (SRCs) in various South African provinces. Based on constructivist competence based training and learning approaches – CBT: “21st century skills” / “entrepreneurial skills”, in cooperation with DHET (European Commission – AECOM)

Completed (2017): South Africa, Theory of Change based contributions to the design of the EU funded programme(s) on education and employability, focus on TVET, Primary Education and ECD (European Commission – HCL)

Completed (2016 – 2017): Georgia, advice on the establishment of a European School in Tbilisi: educational, linguistic and pedagogical aspects (European Commission – Kantor)

Completed (2016): Uzbekistan, final evaluation on expected impact of project on Inclusive Education for Children with Special Needs in Uzbekistan: policy framework, capacity development, public awareness (European Commission – Proman)

Completed (2015 – 2016): South Africa, final evaluation of the Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP), seven projects on sports, theatre, music and arts&crafts – technical and life skills for disadvantaged youth in townships: Soweto, Khayelitsha, and other (European Commission – EPRD)

Completed (2016): Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), mapping and evaluation of programmes on equal access to quality education and advice for the future: integration and inclusion of ethnic minorities, people with special needs (European Commission – Proman)

Completed (2014): Belarus, evaluation of social inclusion sector in the Republic of Belarus and identification of potential areas of cooperation and assistance of the European Union to Belarus (European Commission – EPRD)

Completed (2013/14): Contributions to developing effective and coherent strategies on humanitarian assistance, including the role of education and of programmes for trauma counselling – in cooperation with the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard

Completed (2013): Swaziland – Contribution to the development of the National Education and Training Improvement Programme (NETIP): development of a results framework for monitoring and evaluating the NETIP (European Commission – AESA)

Completed (2011-2012): Midterm review of Sanpad phase 3 (South Africa – Netherlands research Programme on Alternatives in Development), on policy related multidisciplinary international research cooperation and research capacity building, between South African and Dutch universities: social and human sciences, natural sciences (Sanpad)

Completed (2012): support to the establishment of a higher education institute in Kabul – Afghanistan, focus on health, education, management and good governance (ACTD)

Completed (2011): Hungary, Facilitation of a workshop on gender awareness in developmental projects, for international Dorcas staff (Dorcas International).

Completed (2011): Burundi, Support to the development of an M&E system for strengthening primary school governance and accountability (SAGE-P programme), in cooperation with the MoE (Cambridge Education / DFID)

Completed (2010-2011): Armenia, providing institutional building support to the Ministry of Education and Science in continuing the process of modernization of the 12 VET colleges in order for them to become multifunctional regional VET centres in Armenia – multiple missions (European Commission / PMO-STTE).

Completed (2010): Afghanistan, support to an educational evaluation (primary education) in Uruzgan province: supervision and training of Afghan evaluators, mainly by distance support and in Kabul; special focus on the position of girls (Save the Children).

Completed (2010): Macedonia, planning and implementation of a learning process on the achievements and experiences of projects on interethnic education and youth work in Macedonia – with special attention to institutionalisation and replication (SIDA / InDevelop)

Completed (2010): Study on “Youth and Social Inclusion in EC External Cooperation”. Includes investigation of good practices in Youth Chain activities: non-formal and formal education, business skills, attitudes and behaviour, TVET, etc.

Completed (2009): South Africa and United Kingdom, final evaluation of the Technical and Business Education Initiative in South Africa (TABEISA) – promotion of entrepreneurial / vocational skills among disadvantaged youth in townships; an initiative of South African and UK universities (European Commission / ICON)

Completed (2009): Guyana and Netherlands Antilles, Final evaluation support to the Netherlands Antilles Youth Development Programme (SNAYDP), under 9th EDF: inetgration of 16-24 years old youth (most deprived) into the social-economic fabric of the Netherlands Antilles: Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba (European Commission / EPRD)

Completed (2002 – 2005): implementation in Dutch primary schools of the Programme for Education on Peace and Reconciliation – Prepare: training module for teachers on coping with trauma (in co-operation with APS)

Completed (2001 – 2005): project leader of an experimental introduction in the Netherlands of African participatory methods in adult basic education (Themis-project), aiming at empowerment and participation in society of the beneficiaries (non-western immigrants); includes curriculum development by using a participatory approach – project leader (Municipality of Leiden)

Completed (1999 – 2004): editor of a data-base on basic education for empowerment (South North Network for Education Transfer, Sonnet)

Completed (2003): internal evaluation (output and impact) of improvements in primary teacher training in Uganda: assessment of the teacher training curriculum, teacher and tutor professional profiles and the Educational Working Places for student teachers (KYU and APS)

Completed (2002 – 2003): support to a mid-term review of NGO’s in Somalia + support to the development of an interactive website – teamleader (Novib/Oxfam Netherlands)

Completed (2002): support to the development of a pastoralist curriculum in northern Ethiopia (Novib/Oxfam Netherlands)

Completed (2000 – 2001): experimental development and implementation in the Netherlands of the Programme for Education on Peace and Reconciliation (Prepare – training module for teachers on coping with trauma) in primary schools with a large refugee population; this pilot included research on effectiveness (Netherlands Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, in co-operation with APS)

Completed in 2001: organisation of a conference on retention in schools (APS, Utrecht)

1999 – 2000: evaluations Video Home Training Programmes in Czechia and in Poland (Matra-Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in co-operation with the University of Amsterdam)

Various evaluations on basic education in Europe and in Africa (since 1993)

Various workshops on adult basic education in Mali, Senegal and Uganda (since 1989)

Educational research on basic education in Kenya, Mali and Uganda (1992 – 1996)Contributions to conferences and seminars in the Netherlands, Finland, France, Italy, Uganda and the UK (a.o. Unesco, Nasedec)

Tutor of various student surveys in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Uganda

Member of the board of Sonnet, the South North Network for Education Transfer (1995 – 2004)

Member of the educational committee of the Netherlands National Commission for Unesco (1998 – 2002)

Supervisor of the international Sonnet-conference on Basic Education and Empowerment in the South and in the North (September 1998), supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

Facilitator/trainer educational improvement of community schools in the Netherlands (APS, 1997 – 1998)

Facilitator/trainer educational improvement of academic staff at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS-The Hague, 1998)